• Eric Pawson - Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award, 2009 more...
• Graeme Campbell - Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (for services to conservation)
• Richard Bedford - Companion to the Queen's Service Order (for services to geography)
• Dame Evelyn Stokes - this honour (DSNZ) was awarded by the Queen in 2000
• Graeme Campbell - Companion of The Royal Society of New Zealand
• Richard Le Heron - Fellow of The Royal Society of New Zealand
• Warren Moran - Fellow of The Royal Society of New Zealand
• Richard Bedford - Fellow of The Royal Society of New Zealand
• John Flenley - Fellow of The Royal Society of New Zealand
• Kenneth Cumberland, CBE - Fellow of The Royal Society of New Zealand
• Gordon Campbell - Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

Geographer, Gordon Campbell with Sir Edmund Hillary
Gordon began teaching Geography in 1932